title: Mitigating disasters: power to the community.
abstract: The average Japanese disaster, according to the British environmental agency Earthscan, kills 63 people. In Peru, however, the average death toll is 2,900 persons. This is because poor countries, and the poorest people within poor countries, are the most vulnerable--and it is vulnerability that kills.
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authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Nelson
mesh_terms: D003256:Community Participation; D003906:Developing Countries; D004189:Disaster Planning / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D004190:Disasters; D006801:Humans; D010568:Peru; D012066:Relief Work / Q000592:standards; D014900:West Indies